Review - MailStore Home v7.0.7.7671

Every now and then a server goes down. It's a fact of cyber-life. For a simple website hosting a video game, a song, a video or the like, this won't be such a big deal, but what if it was your email that was unaccessible?

I present to you the free version of MailStore. It will fetch mail from your accounts using POP3 or IMAP4 and store them on your hard disk for searching and reading. It comes ready to access many popular servers such as Hotmail and Gmail, and can export to text files or certain email client database formats.

Of course this won't let you read new mail while the servers are down, but at least your old messages will be there.

Free, easy to use, small learning curve. The rest will become a habit that you won't regret the next time you'll need to find that bit of info that you didn't write down when your email goes offline.

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URL: http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx/

Review - Nocs v2.3

I like writing things in plain text files such as to do lists, memos, quotes, etc. Since they have ridiculously small file sizes and are universal, so to speak, being compatible with any system. 

When I'm not at my computer however I cannot access them. I could use an online service to store them, but what if the server is offline when I need it? Let's make all this much simpler... 

Nocs is a tabbed plain text editor which allows you to save your files to disk like notepad, but also to your Google docs (now Google drive) account, allowing you to access them when not at your PC. As a bonus, since you can save the files on your hard disk, you could also sync them with a client installed, such as the one from Dropbox. Copies and backups everywhere! 

Nocs hasn't been updated in a while, but runs smoothly on my machine none the less. It's free and requires .NET 4. 

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URL: http://code.google.com/p/nocs/